Dr John Cameron Hartley
@drjchartley.bsky.social
"He's not a philosopher, that's just the name of the degree, dear."
Here's where we are now:
apparently Nigel Farage's juvenile endorsement of the Nazi Death Camps, should be considered as the cultural equivalent of the 'Black & White Minstrel Show', on the BBC, performng 'De Camptown Races'.
'sake.
apparently Nigel Farage's juvenile endorsement of the Nazi Death Camps, should be considered as the cultural equivalent of the 'Black & White Minstrel Show', on the BBC, performng 'De Camptown Races'.
'sake.
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Here's where we are now:
apparently Nigel Farage's juvenile endorsement of the Nazi Death Camps, should be considered as the cultural equivalent of the 'Black & White Minstrel Show', on the BBC, performng 'De Camptown Races'.
'sake.
apparently Nigel Farage's juvenile endorsement of the Nazi Death Camps, should be considered as the cultural equivalent of the 'Black & White Minstrel Show', on the BBC, performng 'De Camptown Races'.
'sake.
To the Lee Miller exhibition at the Polygon Gallery, Shipyards, North Vancouver.
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thepolygon.ca/exhibition/l...
Lee Miller: A Photographer At Work (1932—1945)
This exhibition explores one of the most intense and productive chapters in the professional life of American photographer Lee Miller. Between 1932 and 1945...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
To the Lee Miller exhibition at the Polygon Gallery, Shipyards, North Vancouver.
thepolygon.ca/exhibition/l...
thepolygon.ca/exhibition/l...
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If you missed last week's absolutely fantastic talk by John Hartley on Hugh Walpole, catch it here!
youtu.be/2_elR9E53lc
Early 20th century pulp Gothic!
youtu.be/2_elR9E53lc
Early 20th century pulp Gothic!
Hugh Walpole: Wild Excursions into the Macabre with John Hartley
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If you missed last week's absolutely fantastic talk by John Hartley on Hugh Walpole, catch it here!
youtu.be/2_elR9E53lc
Early 20th century pulp Gothic!
youtu.be/2_elR9E53lc
Early 20th century pulp Gothic!
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This talk was SO GOOD! You should absolutely come join us for the 7pm!
If you like lesser known queer Gothic authors, we'll be exploring the work of Hugh Walpole tomorrow. If you haven't read any of his stuff, I'll pop a story link in the next post!
Join us tomorrow (25th)
10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
7pm- www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Join us tomorrow (25th)
10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
7pm- www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Select tickets – Hugh Walpole: Wild Excursions into the Macabre with John Hartley – Zoom
Hugh Walpole: Wild Excursions into the Macabre with John Hartley – Zoom, Sat 25 Oct 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support t...
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October 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This talk was SO GOOD! You should absolutely come join us for the 7pm!
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The latest issue of 'The Hugh Walpole Review', Vol. 6, Number 2, Autumn 2025.
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The latest issue of 'The Hugh Walpole Review', Vol. 6, Number 2, Autumn 2025.
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I don't know if you've read many but I feel like Hugh's murder-y homoerotic Gothic pulp might fall into your wheelhouse... @kjcharleswriter.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I don't know if you've read many but I feel like Hugh's murder-y homoerotic Gothic pulp might fall into your wheelhouse... @kjcharleswriter.com
Reposted by Dr John Cameron Hartley
Reposted by Dr John Cameron Hartley
If you like lesser known queer Gothic authors, we'll be exploring the work of Hugh Walpole tomorrow. If you haven't read any of his stuff, I'll pop a story link in the next post!
Join us tomorrow (25th)
10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
7pm- www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Join us tomorrow (25th)
10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
7pm- www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Select tickets – Hugh Walpole: Wild Excursions into the Macabre with John Hartley – Zoom
Hugh Walpole: Wild Excursions into the Macabre with John Hartley – Zoom, Sat 25 Oct 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support t...
www.tickettailor.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you like lesser known queer Gothic authors, we'll be exploring the work of Hugh Walpole tomorrow. If you haven't read any of his stuff, I'll pop a story link in the next post!
Join us tomorrow (25th)
10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
7pm- www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Join us tomorrow (25th)
10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
7pm- www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
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Coming soon
'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories'
from those nice people at The Hugh Walpole Society
& Grayswood Press.
'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories'
from those nice people at The Hugh Walpole Society
& Grayswood Press.
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Coming soon
'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories'
from those nice people at The Hugh Walpole Society
& Grayswood Press.
'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories'
from those nice people at The Hugh Walpole Society
& Grayswood Press.
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What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
Romancing the Gothic 2026 Conference CFP
More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
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Hundreds of talks on Gothic and Horror topics by experts from around the world?
Check it out!
Check it out!
I updated the Online Class page so that now you can:
See the programme right up to the end of the year!
See ALL out Saturday and Sunday talks from the last 5 years!!
romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...
See the programme right up to the end of the year!
See ALL out Saturday and Sunday talks from the last 5 years!!
romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...
Class Schedules
For classes that have already happened, you can click on ‘Online Here’ to see a recorded version. Check out the YouTube channel for earlier classes as well! Sign up here Date (All times…
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October 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Hundreds of talks on Gothic and Horror topics by experts from around the world?
Check it out!
Check it out!
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Did you miss last week's talk on the Cumbrian poet and early vampire writer John Stagg?
Catch it here - youtu.be/LCGCOsrQPLc
Catch it here - youtu.be/LCGCOsrQPLc
John Stagg: The Minstrel of the North with John Hartley
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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October 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Did you miss last week's talk on the Cumbrian poet and early vampire writer John Stagg?
Catch it here - youtu.be/LCGCOsrQPLc
Catch it here - youtu.be/LCGCOsrQPLc
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What roles did women play in theorising, popularising, writing, publishing and reading the early Gothic?
Come find out!
youtu.be/ZYXmHoErwL8
Come find out!
youtu.be/ZYXmHoErwL8
Women and the Early Gothic with Dr Sam Hirst
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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October 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What roles did women play in theorising, popularising, writing, publishing and reading the early Gothic?
Come find out!
youtu.be/ZYXmHoErwL8
Come find out!
youtu.be/ZYXmHoErwL8
'Britannia once both far and near
For common sense was famous;
But now, surrounding states we hear,
Call her an ignoramus.'
John Stagg, 'An Elegy on the Death of Johanna Southcott'
'The Minstrel of the North'
(2nd edition, Mark Wardle, Manchester, 1816).
For common sense was famous;
But now, surrounding states we hear,
Call her an ignoramus.'
John Stagg, 'An Elegy on the Death of Johanna Southcott'
'The Minstrel of the North'
(2nd edition, Mark Wardle, Manchester, 1816).
October 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
'Britannia once both far and near
For common sense was famous;
But now, surrounding states we hear,
Call her an ignoramus.'
John Stagg, 'An Elegy on the Death of Johanna Southcott'
'The Minstrel of the North'
(2nd edition, Mark Wardle, Manchester, 1816).
For common sense was famous;
But now, surrounding states we hear,
Call her an ignoramus.'
John Stagg, 'An Elegy on the Death of Johanna Southcott'
'The Minstrel of the North'
(2nd edition, Mark Wardle, Manchester, 1816).
Reposted by Dr John Cameron Hartley
This weekend, we're joined by John Hartley to talk about the Cumbrian poet John Stagg. Most famous perhaps for writing one of the earliest vampire poems! Join us at 10am or 7pm British time
10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1018518124...
7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1018519217...
10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1018518124...
7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1018519217...
John Stagg: The Minstrel of the North with John Hartley
This talk introduces the life and work of poet John Stagg
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October 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This weekend, we're joined by John Hartley to talk about the Cumbrian poet John Stagg. Most famous perhaps for writing one of the earliest vampire poems! Join us at 10am or 7pm British time
10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1018518124...
7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1018519217...
10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1018518124...
7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1018519217...
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#Christmas 1930 Radio Times: Editorial featuring Bach's Cantatas; Dancing with tears in my eyes; Other Days; Toy Town; Plays and the Theatre; If; The six Brandenburg Concertos; Ernest Procter; Luther; Jack Payne and more
READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/41b1be4ea862456ea9236f90420b8a8b?page=8
READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/41b1be4ea862456ea9236f90420b8a8b?page=8
October 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#Christmas 1930 Radio Times: Editorial featuring Bach's Cantatas; Dancing with tears in my eyes; Other Days; Toy Town; Plays and the Theatre; If; The six Brandenburg Concertos; Ernest Procter; Luther; Jack Payne and more
READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/41b1be4ea862456ea9236f90420b8a8b?page=8
READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/41b1be4ea862456ea9236f90420b8a8b?page=8
Excited to receive this from my good friend Trevor Grahamslaw, his exhaustively researched history of the Cumbrian market town of Wigton.
Mainly set in the Georgian era of the Hanoverian Kings, it's a labour of love, lavishly illustrated from his vast collection of photographs.
Mainly set in the Georgian era of the Hanoverian Kings, it's a labour of love, lavishly illustrated from his vast collection of photographs.
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Excited to receive this from my good friend Trevor Grahamslaw, his exhaustively researched history of the Cumbrian market town of Wigton.
Mainly set in the Georgian era of the Hanoverian Kings, it's a labour of love, lavishly illustrated from his vast collection of photographs.
Mainly set in the Georgian era of the Hanoverian Kings, it's a labour of love, lavishly illustrated from his vast collection of photographs.
At last I have it!
'New Worlds' #191, 1969.
The 'Jerry Cornelius' issue, with cover art by the late, great, Mal Dean!
Jerry!
Jerry!
Jerry!
'New Worlds' #191, 1969.
The 'Jerry Cornelius' issue, with cover art by the late, great, Mal Dean!
Jerry!
Jerry!
Jerry!
August 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
At last I have it!
'New Worlds' #191, 1969.
The 'Jerry Cornelius' issue, with cover art by the late, great, Mal Dean!
Jerry!
Jerry!
Jerry!
'New Worlds' #191, 1969.
The 'Jerry Cornelius' issue, with cover art by the late, great, Mal Dean!
Jerry!
Jerry!
Jerry!
'Fennell’s take on their characters [Catherine & Heathcliff] is sufficiently “cold and unlikable” that engagement with their fates is made difficult.'
Tbh I've always found them to be cold & unlikeable.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
Tbh I've always found them to be cold & unlikeable.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
‘Aggressively provocative’: test screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction
An early test showing of Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Brontë adaptation suggests the unfinished film features horse-rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nuns
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
'Fennell’s take on their characters [Catherine & Heathcliff] is sufficiently “cold and unlikable” that engagement with their fates is made difficult.'
Tbh I've always found them to be cold & unlikeable.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
Tbh I've always found them to be cold & unlikeable.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
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What's this!?
An online conference!?
Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
Check it out!!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
An online conference!?
Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
Check it out!!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
Buy tickets – A Warning to the Curious: A Ghostly Online Conference – Zoom
Romancing the Gothic presents its fifth annual online conference over two days - 23rd and 24th August. The conference celebrate...
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July 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What's this!?
An online conference!?
Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
Check it out!!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
An online conference!?
Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
Check it out!!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
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Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
For some, of a certain age.
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www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Gerald Harper obituary
Stylish actor with a self-knowing comic touch who had a successful career on television and the stage
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
For some, of a certain age.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Bear with me.
Vatican golf course:
Pitch & Putti.
Vatican golf course:
Pitch & Putti.
May 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Bear with me.
Vatican golf course:
Pitch & Putti.
Vatican golf course:
Pitch & Putti.
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I will be speaking at this conference at The University of Westminster 6th May. It's free to join online or in person. Kazumi Kuwahara will be speaking about her grandmother's experience of Hiroshima See here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
Select tickets – Symposium on the 80-year legacy of War and Paths to Peace: Commemorating VJ Day – Portland Hall, 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, University of Westminster
Presented by Democratic Education Network
Supported byEquality, Diversity and Inclusion Programme "Westminster for All" led b...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I will be speaking at this conference at The University of Westminster 6th May. It's free to join online or in person. Kazumi Kuwahara will be speaking about her grandmother's experience of Hiroshima See here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
